{"id":202,"date":"2006-03-29T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/?p=202"},"modified":"2013-10-06T20:40:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T20:40:27","slug":"sports-guiel-gets-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/2006\/03\/29\/sports-guiel-gets-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports &#8211; Guiel Gets Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/mld\/kansascity\/sports\/14215120.htm\">Shane Costa won the 4th outfielder job with the Royals.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t that big of a deal, but Guiel is one of the guys I like to root for. I hope he gets a call earlier this year than last if anybody goes down (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballreference.com\/s\/sandere02.shtml\">Laverne<\/a>, I&#8217;m looking at you).<\/p>\n<p>My man AG was having a great spring, putting up a 351\/479\/622 line in 37 at bats.<\/p>\n<p>Joe McEwing was also cut after posting 436\/500\/667 in 39 ABs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/mld\/kansascity\/sports\/14209569.htm\">Super Joe put up a fuss<\/a> (I haven&#8217;t seen any Guiel quotes yet).<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a quick look at each player&#8217;s OPS this spring against last year, along with those of the guys who stole their jobs, and see who has more right to complain.<\/p>\n<pre><b>Player  Spring  2005<\/b><br>J-Mac   1167    558<br>Graffy  712     791<br>-------------------<br>AG      1101    805<br>Costa   738     621<\/pre>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll both have plenty of time to debate their merits while waiting at the bus station in Omaha.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"hgmiller\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Sports%20-%20Guiel%20Gets%20Cut\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Costa won the 4th outfielder job with the Royals. This isn&#8217;t that big of a deal, but Guiel is one of the guys I like to root for. I hope he gets a call earlier this year than last if anybody goes down (Laverne, I&#8217;m looking at you). My man AG was having a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"hgmiller\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Sports%20-%20Guiel%20Gets%20Cut\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hgmiller.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}